ISSUE 73 | MAR 2017

SING WRATH

A worker of some kind, from a garden of removed Soviet statues outside Prague.
Photograph by Tom Dyne.

April Fei

I Was a Call Girl in Trump Tower

his way of screening sugar baby candidates - he had a big, round gut - it was the usual process - a lonely man’s tacky idea of what winning looked like - I felt fortunate that his penis was small - I should have named a price - a little more contact with a bleak necessity showed me that the body is vulnerable

Rachel Kranz

Exoticism

a round, smooth feeling through my flimsy cotton shirt - I’m sex for Doudou, nothing more - as one of three white women on this trip - will I have to teach him everything? - I have the French vocabulary for all of this, of course - I count out ten dollars, twenty, fifty

Alexandra Myshalov

Some Light Reading on the History of Violence

destituent power - more abstract over time - deadly weapons - fraternities - chivalric trappings - hollowed-out pseudomorph - only a husk

Victor Boy Lindholm, Sheri Hellberg

Gold

it's a workout for the soul - what do you have for me / triumphant globalization - oh damn it feels so good - drink some pina coladas / to be able to handle denmark - i feel miserable / in a shower of sexy deo-spray - your eyes are my used gold

David Markus

Tramp the Dirt Down: Notes on the Politics of Anger

a single amorphous mob - what to call it if not - Berniebro - tramp the dirt down - corporate whore - justice and contempt - the whole of American society - Elvis Costello - when they go low

Daniel Spielberger

Animal Farm: The Musical

mediocre drama queens in the throes of orthodontic treatment - he knew his funding was going to be cut - Orwell's fabled approach to the rise and subsequent corruption of the socialist ideal - two legs bad / two legs bad - my sister Leah was the archetypal overachieving, ambitious teenager - dating Hen number two - opening night

Mamie Stevenson

The Man, the Myth, the Legend

in my dorm room during Orientation Week while being dry-humped by the only blond guy to have ever said I love you to me - who highlights an epic poem? - people who smoked cigarettes, people who had sex, people who knew that Park Slope wasn’t a mountain - I was told regularly that I was a leftist - a liberal institution that devalued women’s voices - a humanities lecture, a sunny day in Portland, a parade twice a year